If we had kept the vision of interconnectedness, we would not have created the kind of environmental crisis facing the world today.

We have to shift our attitude of ownership of nature to relationship with nature. The moment you change from ownership to relationship, you create a sense of the sacred.

The way to healthy living is to shift from quantitative economic growth to quality of life, food, water and air - to shift from craving to contentment and from greed to gratitude

Lead me from death to life, from falsehood to truth; Lead me from despair to hope, from fear to trust; Lead me from hate to love, from war to peace; Let peace fill our heart, our world, our universe

We depend on the gifts of nature, but these gifts must be received with gratitude and not exploited or abused

Without the land, the rivers, the oceans, the forests, the sunshine, the minerals and thousands of natural resources we would have no economy whatsoever

Economy without ecology means managing the human nature relationship without knowing the delicate balance between humankind and the natural world

Happiness is possible only when we are kind to others and contented within.

How much I can learn from a tree! The tree is my church, the tree is my temple, the tree is my mantra, the tree is my poem and my prayer.

What we call 'economic growth' is in fact a growth in waste and a decline in the health of natural habitat

Human happiness, true prosperity and joyful living can only emerge from a life of elegant simplicity, embedded in the arts and crafts.

I needed to see you. And touch you. And just... know

I have found the more worthwhile something is, the more of your life is required to achieve it.

I always listen to what I can leave out.

So my hope and prayer is that people will be impacted by the realization that miracles are everywhere and that God uses them to communicate to us that we're not alone, and that we do have help.

I've found a formula for avoiding these exaggerated fears of age; you take care of every day - let the calendar take care of the years.

Because it's kind of great, being an idea that everybody likes. But I could never be the idea to myself, not all the way.

If you love someone, you say it, right then, out loud. Otherwise, the moment just passes you by.

The most important investment of our time is in our people and in our youth.

My sport taught me what I could do with my talents, whether in the rink or in the rest of my life

When I meet thousands of fans of the comic - when I realize every one of them can recite the Lantern Corps oath ('In Brightest Day, in blackest night...') - I know how important this is to people.